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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Fancy Friday Blog Hop - A Color Challenge

Hi stampers! Welcome to another Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We're so happy you're here! If you're new, we are a group of friends who have been honored to be on or are currently on, the Stampin' Up Artisan Design Team and we love to show you pretty things once a month!

This month's theme was a color challenge and I'm not gonna lie, I may have gone, "whoa" when I first saw it :-) It's a lot of colors and kind of un-me. BUT it is a challenge for that very reason I guess so I dove in! We didn't have to use all of the colors if we didn't want to but I say go big or go home, right? :-)

I was afraid I'd struggle to figure something out but almost immediately the Eastern Beauty Stamp Set and Eastern Medallion Thinlits came to mind thanks to the inspiration photo. It's very boho!

The colors are Mango Melody, Powder Pink, Pacific Point, Smokey Slate, Whisper White, and Rich Razzleberry. Whew!

I hadn't use this set in a long while but it was fun to dust it off. It works perfectly with these colors and I can totally see this in that room! I added just a little bit of gold in the middle.

I wasn't sure at first how to make this very Fancy Friday worthy but I think my Embossing Mats did the trick! Instead of cutting out the middle portion of the medallion, I use the dies and mat to emboss the pattern instead and I LOVE it! If you don't have the mat you need it and if you do, USE the thing!!!!

And here's one more tip. Practice if you have an idea you're not sure will work out. I actually made a couple trials of this card on just scratch paper and played around with the cutouts in the middle and which colors I wanted where. When I found one I liked, then I recreated it for real on my good and precious cardstock ;-)

So, there it is! This was a challenge for me for sure but I hope I made it work and I'm happy it inspired me to do something not very "me" and dig out an older stamp set! They need love, too :-)

Now it's time to hop on over to my fancy Friend, Cindy! You are just going to love what you see!

Happy stamping!

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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Eastern Palace Cards - Global Artisan Design Team Blog Hop

Hi stampers! I swear I'm going to get around to stamping and blogging regularly...as soon as this weekend and our rummage sale passes :-) I've been working away in the attic trying to get organized and completely unpacked, but more about that in another post!

Today, it's time for another ADT blog hop! Take a trip around the world with us and check out some more inspiration for the Eastern Palace bundle which you can get your hands on NOW, a month before the new catalog goes live! Do yourself a favor and experience Eastern-inspired opulence—plus get a free gift and three of the new 2017-2019 In Colors included in one of your exclusive bundles!

You may have come from Mercedes' blog, she's just fabulous, but just keep clicking if you didn't and you'll fly around the world in no time. Feel free to use google translate to catch all the details as well.

For this hop, I went super simple. So many people are doing so much fabulous stuff with this set and it's really terrific...but honestly, it can feel overwhelming I think. While you can do some really nifty stuff with these stamps and dies and all the coordinating accessories, you can also do some really great simple stuff too and I wanted to showcase that! I also wanted to focus more on the circle images which I feel are getting overlooked as well. I love a good circle!

For this card, I simply did a watercolor wash in the three new in colors and then embossed the biggest circle by inking in versamark first and then into my archival pad. Then, I stamped the dots and little diamond in the respective in color. I'm sort of in love with the way it turned out! And I think I mentioned it last time but that card base there, the very vanilla one, it's THICK cardstock! Woot, woot!!!!!! You NEED to get you some of this stuff! The pearls are really hard to see since they are so tiny, but there are pearls on each diamond too, in our smallest size.

For my next card, I tried to incorporate a different color scheme while keeping it super simple. I know I get caught up in only sticking to the color combo in a particular suite. I wanted to show that just by changing one color here, using Bermuda bay in place of tranquil tide, you can change the whole look of a card! The stickers still coordinate and look great! Sorry the top one is washed out in the photo! I'm still trying to get the hang of photos in our new house.

And just for fun, I'll throw in one more card that uses the circles. If I'm being honest, I had this done for the last hop and just totally forgot it :-) Not like I didn't show you 3000 cards there, lol! But, I'm glad I "saved it" because it works perfectly for again showing how simple this set can be. I simply created a little background and then threw the fun die cut on there! Pretty and easy....pretty easy!

Thanks so much for joining us! I hope that I showed you how fabulous yet simple this set can be! When you're ready, take a trip over to the Netherlands with Miriam and check out her pretty project!

Here's a handy little blog roll as well in case you want to jump around!

Tanya Boser

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Friday, April 14, 2017

Fab Friday 110

Hi stampers! Happy Friday! I actually stamped in my very-much-a-mess-but-kind-of-functional stamp room! I spent most of Thursday setting things up and unpacking. I had spent the previous days on other rooms and still have miles to go almost everywhere in the house, eek! But anyway, I had to get set up for Fab Friday! We have some fun colors for you this week!

I know it's a lot of colors but you can do it :-) I mean come on, if I did in the state of my studio/house then you got it ;-)

And in case you don't like this one...you can use the one I originally intended but with my moving brain I screwed up! LOL! Man, I feel bad for the team on this one. I got cross eyed and put two challenges together I think. Anyway, this is the one I wish I'd done and more what my inspiration photo was like...sigh....

So, this week you can pick either challenge!

I used the Eastern beauty stamp set because new stuff is fun and because I thought it would look great in these colors!

You can see on the detailed picture that I had some little boo-boos on my pool party dots. I didn't fix it because, well things are crazy now :-) Hope you'll forgive me!